plan of University reform, has not disarmed the fears or prejudices of the learned bodies. In formally announcing the intended issue of the Commission, Lord John Russell ....

GREECE, coerced by England, and the angers of France thereat, lave filled the journals and the public mind for the week. The pass of wrifing, and printing devoted to this joint...

words " progress," " natural." "..bstructien," &R., in a sense different from the official and popular use : they suppose themselves to be a sort of " fast!' corporatiOn,...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. House op COMMoss. Thursday, May 29. Greek Controversy ; Ruphzre with France; Ministerial Explanations—Committee of Supply—Chicory and other...

the impossibility of reducing our military expenditure in India; while the provoking cause of the rebellion, an exorbitant increase in the price of salt,—salt being a...

present interest. While the country still heaves to the oscilla- tions of parties gathering strength for the struggle, the Assembly has been the scene of a new and stirring...

A deputation from the " London Committee appointed to promote the Amendment of the Law of Debtor and Creditor," and from the Chamber of Commerce, the Guardian Society, and...

THE ceremony of churching the Queen was performed on Monday morn- ing, in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace. Several royal and other distinguished visiters called early...

An official correspondence on the intention of Ministers to issue a Royal Commission of inquiry into the state and revenues of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge has...

rnaeree.—The general discussion on the electoral law in the Assembly was commenced by General Cavaignae : he had voted for the previous question, and new lie would give brief...

The Queen has appointed Sir John Jervis, Attorney-General, Mr. Samuel Martin, Q.C., Mr. William Henry Walton, Master of the Court of Exchequer, Mr. George William Bramwell,...

Broca EXCHANGE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The French Funds have been in a continued state of improvement during the week ; the closing price of the Five per Cents in Paris yesterday...

an attempt to as- sassinate the King - of Prussia. The King and Queen were about to leave Berlin on the 22d instant, for the palace of San Souci, but were detained It'short time...

A proposition to repeal so much of the 3 and 4 Victoria cap. 17 as im- poses an additional duty of ten per cent on Assessed and Window taxes, was brought forward by Mr....

a pension of 251. a year to Mrs. Harriet Waghorn, widow of the - late Lieutenant Thomas Waghorn, "in consideration of the eminent services of her late husband."—Globe.

lately occa- sioned much uneasiness to his friends, has arrived in town from Cam- bridgeshire, much recovered. The Reverend Dr. Warneford has given the generous donation of...

has offered to " compromise " the Greek affair, on this basis- " That the convention of London, concluded between France and England, should be enforced, in place of the one...

Monday, May 27. Supply: Mr. Hamilton to move an address on the subject of Dish Education. Supply: Report. Court of Chancery (Ireland) Bill : Third reading. Elections (Ireland)...

of making Whitsun- tide a theatrical festival has been revived. At the former, we have one of those pieces called " revues," which are produced M Paris as regularly as...

Madame Frezzolini, who has appeared this week at Her Majesty's Theatre, is not only a great actress-singer, but her genius has a pecu- liarity which distinguishes her—it is...

show the want of connexion between wealth and happiness ; though here the lesson is con, veyed in the farce form. A costermonger, the betrothed of a chimney sweeper's daughter,...

Mr. Tom Taylor and is entitled The Philosopher's S i tone. It is a happy instance of the ;dent already exhibited in Diogenes, of seizing on a traditional idea, and so turn- ing...

one of the most interesting we have ever listened to. The attractive charac- ter of the programme was evinced by the extraordinary demand for ad- missions. The room, at these...

usual dilet- tante want of strength, the Rent Day of Mr. Jerrold and the Poor Gentle- man of Colman were respectably acted at the St. James's on Saturday last, by the "Amateur...

Ro- berto a Diavolo, could not have disappointed those who had considered the nature of the character and the qualities of the performer. Grisi cannot do anything positively ill...

BRITISH INDIA: THE "BLACK ACTS." THXELE is a romantic interest about tales of fighting and hair- breadth escapes in unsettled countries, of which commercial statis- tics and...

D'Arannsur allegorized the healing art, by likening a physician to a blind man armed with a. club, and intent upon quelling a fray between Nature and Disease : the blind man...

Pars/mem is best shown in extremes, but we are amazed at the severity of our own principle when we find ourselves defending the Agapemone !—that the austerity of consistency...

OF late years considerable improvements have been made in Hyde Park. New paths have been formed, more coaveuient ancl di- rect ; the gravel laid down, firmer and yellower, is...

APPEALS IN ClIA.NCERY. Lontion,;22d May 1850. Sra—The newspaper of this morning. contains a list - Of fifty-one appeals depending before the Lord . Chancellor but does not...

48, Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square, 21st May 1850. Me. Enrron—I scarcely believe that Mr. Kirkup wrote and authorized the publication of the personal attack that appeared in...

mountains ! closed the poet's eves To all earth's beauty—wood, and lake, and skies, And golden mists that up the rallies creep. Sweet Duddon's stream and Rydal's gezasy steep,...

MR. WELD'S SUMMER RAMBLE. * IN the summer of 1849, the Assistant Secretary of the Hord Society was puzzled how to pass his holydays—lucky fellow! the puzzle with most of us...

when Southey was in his thirty-ninth year, to 1819, his forty-sixth. It has less of biogra- hical variety and fulness than the previous volumes, and is per- ha ps slightly...

This fiction is very superior to the generality of novels, both in . matter and execution. In one or two points- of detail the writer has fallen into mistaken views, of art, but...

brother of Mr. Goodsir was in Sir John Franklin ' s expedition, and as the uncer- taintyabout its fate rose into fear, Mr. Goodsir and his family na- turall y became anxious....

ACJIMENY EXHIBITION : STORY PICTURES. Tax subject of Mr. Solomon's picture is of a kind unsuited to any but a trifle or a caricature ; and the proposition which it involves is...

The Shoe and the Canoe ; or Pictures of Travel in the Canadas, illus- trative of their Scenery and of Colonial Life, &c. With numerous Plates and Maps. By John J. Bigsby, M.D....

On the 15th May, at Goldington Hall, Bedfordshire, the Lady of William K. untie, Esq., of a son. On the 18th, at Totes Court, Kent, the Wife of Hughes F. Ingram, Esq., of a son...

Wes-OFFICD, May 17.-5th Begt. of Drag. Guards-R. T. Cadman, Gent. to be Gimlet, by purchase, vice Helfoni, promoted. 10th Light Drags.-J. E. Severn, Gent. to be Comet, by...

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last : the first column of figures gives the aggregate number of deaths...

SHARES. (Last Official Quotation during the RAILWAYS— Caledonian Edinburgh and Glasgow Eastern Counties Great Northern Great North of England Great South. and West. Ireland...

Taeaday, May 21. Emir:magnum DISSOLVED.—J. and T. Parkinson, Bacup, Lancashire, sizers—Bar- raclough and Parkin, Rotherham, steel-rollers—Leigh and Johnson, Manchester, auc-...